Well, to my mind the passage is saying....
Paul is addressing the Roman Christians.
He is thankful for them.
Their faith is renown.
He prays for them regularly.
Paul longs to visit them.
But he can't exactly just hop on a plane, ha ha.
He wants to further establish their faith.
This would have the happy effect of strengthening his own faith, as well.
Paul sees it as his duty to preach the gospel,
to not only the Greek but also the Barbarian
to not only the wise but also to the unwise
He knows the gospel to be the power of God unto salvation.
He knows the only true way of living is to live by faith.
He goes on to declare an important part of the gospel, God's wrath.
God's wrath extends to ALL ungodliness and to ALL unrighteousness.
God has manifested Himself, has made Himself known to the ungodly and the unrighteous
(so that they are without excuse)
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. " (Ro 1:21-23
No mention yet of homosexuality. What God was wroth with was that they knew Him but they glorified Him not, were not thankful, etc...
So He gave them over and the next step their unrighteousness took was unnatural affections. Men with men, receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which is meet. (I've always understood this to mean they receive the seed of the other man, and of course it is pointless in this unholy union)
The unrighteous do not like to retain God in their knowledge, and all manner of unrighteousness is spelled out in this passage:
" Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. " (Romans 1:29-32
So it seems to me that included in the list of those who are worthy of death are such things as pride, envy, the excessively angry (implacable), those who do not exercise mercy...well, the list is pretty comprehensive. Who among us?
To me it goes along with the list of Revelation 1:28 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death..."
There is a death penalty on ALL unrighteousness,
And we are all under it.
But, the story doesn't end there!
And there is a way for the story to never end...
praise Jesus' Holy Name Forever.
So, is that kind of on the track of how you understand it, Twisted?